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The Daily
13 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'The Children in the Shadows'

01:30:41

Prince is 9 years old, ebullient and bright; he has spent much of the pandemic navigating the Google Classroom app from his mother’s phone. The uncertainty and isolation of the coronavirus lockdown is not new to him — he is one of New York City’s more than 100,000 homeless s...

The Daily
11 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

A Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Wildfires

24:24

When many in California talk about this year’s wildfires, they describe the color — the apocalyptic, ominous, red-orange glow in the sky. The state’s current wildfires have seen two and a half million acres already burned. Climate change has made conditions ripe for fires: T...

The Daily
10 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 2

30:53

This episode contains strong language. “So there’s just shooting, like we’re both on the ground,” Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, said of the raid on her home. “I don’t know where these shots are coming from, and I’m scared.” Much of what happened on the night t...

The Daily
09 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 1

27:32

At the beginning of 2020, Breonna Taylor posted on social media that it was going to be her year. She was planning a family with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker; she had a new job and a new car. She had also blocked Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug dealer with whom she had be...

The Daily
08 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

What Happened to Daniel Prude?

29:03

This episode contains strong language. In March, Daniel Prude was exhibiting signs of a mental health crisis. His brother called an ambulance in the hopes that Mr. Prude would be hospitalized, but he was sent back home after three hours without a diagnosis. Later, when Mr. P...

The Daily
04 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Bringing the Theater Back to Life

26:04

Three months into Broadway’s shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, Michael Paulson, a theater reporter for The New York Times, got a call from a theater in western Massachusetts — they planned to put on “Godspell,” a well-loved and much-performed musical from 1971, i...

The Daily
03 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Jimmy Lai vs. China

32:47

This episode contains strong language. Jimmy Lai was born in mainland China but made his fortune in Hong Kong, starting as a sweatshop worker and becoming a clothing tycoon. After the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, he turned his attention to the media, launching publications cr...

The Daily
02 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

A High-Stakes Standoff in Belarus

36:48

Aleksandr Lukashenko came to office in Belarus in the 1990s on a nostalgic message, promising to undo moves toward a market economy and end the hardship the country had endured after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. As president, he acquired dictatorial powers, re...

The Daily
01 Sep 2020 • The New York Times

Joe Biden’s Rebuttal

26:46

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s plan for winning the presidential election relies on putting together African-American voters of all ages, including younger Black people who are less enthusiastic about him, and white moderates who find President Trump unacceptable. At last week’s Repu...

The Daily
31 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

‘Who Replaces Me?’

41:40

This episode contains strong language. As a police officer in his hometown of Flint, Mich., Scott Watson has worked to become a pillar of the community, believing his identity has placed him in a unique position to do his job. He has given out his cellphone number, driven st...

The Daily
30 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'In the Line of Fire'

32:04

Many American states use the labor of inmates to help fight its fires, but none so more than California. Using incarcerated firefighters saves the state’s taxpayers an estimated $100 million a year. The women that choose to enter the firefighting camps are afforded better pa...

The Daily
28 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Donald Trump Jr.’s Journey to Republican Stardom

34:21

For much of his life, Donald Trump Jr. has been disregarded by his father. He played only a bit part in the 2016 campaign and when the team departed for Washington, he was left to oversee a largely unimportant part of the Trump Organization. But after The New York Times reve...

The Daily
27 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

On the Ground in Kenosha

29:51

This episode contains strong language. The shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black father from Kenosha, Wis., by a white police officer has reverberated through the city, fueling protests and unrest. There have been marches and demonstrations, as well as instances of destruction: b...

The Daily
26 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Trump’s Suburban Strategy

32:17

At the 1968 Republican National Convention, Richard Nixon made an appeal to voters in the suburbs concerned about racial unrest across the United States after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. They helped deliver him the presidency that year, cementing suburbanites...

The Daily
25 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Where We Stand on the Pandemic

25:12

In the U.S., emergency-use authorization has been granted for convalescent plasma, the efficacy of which is yet to be robustly tested. For some, this echoes the situation with hydroxychloroquine and the government’s subsequent U-turn on its rollout. Meanwhile, America’s infe...

The Daily
24 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

A Surge in Shootings

30:49

Gun violence is on the rise in New York City. By the end of July, there had been more shootings in 2020 than in all of 2019. Shootings have risen in other metropolises, too, including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Houston. Several theories have been advanced about why. Expert...

The Daily
23 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Sweatpants Forever'

50:41

Much of the fashion industry has buckled under the weight of the coronavirus — it appears to have sped up the inevitable.

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The Daily
21 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

A Pandemic-Proof Bubble?

29:11

When the coronavirus hit the United States, the N.B.A. was faced with a unique challenge. It seemed impossible to impose social distancing in basketball, an indoor sport with players almost constantly jostling one another for more than two hours. However, there was a big fin...

The Daily
20 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Joe Biden’s 30-Year Quest

33:29

Joseph R. Biden Jr. first ran for president in 1988, when his campaign was cut short after he made a series of blunders. After six terms in the Senate, he tried again in 2008 but failed to gain any traction in a contest won by Barack Obama. In the current political landscape...

The Daily
19 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

The President, the Postal Service and the Election

24:15

The installation of Louis DeJoy as postmaster general has caused alarm. Since taking up the role in June, he has enacted a number of cuts to the Postal Service: ending overtime for workers, limiting how many runs they can make in a day, reassigning more than 20 executives an...

The Daily
18 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

A Dinner and a Deal

29:38

In March 2018, Mark Landler — then a White House correspondent at The New York Times — attended a dinner party hosted by the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador, Yousef al-Otaiba, at a Washington restaurant. There he witnessed a chance encounter between the ambassador and Prime...

The Daily
17 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Inside Operation Warp Speed

25:33

Operation Warp Speed has in some ways lived up to its name: The U.S. government has awarded almost $11 billion to seven different companies to develop vaccines, three of which — Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer — are in late-stage trials. Things are going according to the mos...

The Daily
16 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Unwanted Truths'

54:31

What is the extent of Russia’s interest in the 2020 U.S. election? Last year, a classified report written by intelligence officials tried to answer this question. In this episode, Robert Draper, a writer-at-large at The New York Times Magazine, explores what happened after t...

The Daily
14 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Protesting Her Own Employer

42:45

“As a Black woman who works at Adidas my experiences have never been business as usual.” Julia Bond, an assistant apparel designer at the sportswear giant, says she had resigned herself to experiencing and witnessing racism at work — until she saw the George Floyd video. Tod...

The Daily
13 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Why Teachers Aren’t Ready to Reopen Schools

26:25

With the possibility that millions or tens of millions of American children will not enter a classroom for an entire year, school districts face an agonizing choice: Do the benefits of in-person learning outweigh the risks it poses to public health in a pandemic? Today, we e...

The Daily
12 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

A Historic V.P. Decision

27:44

Joseph R. Biden Jr. picked Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate, making her the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket. Alexander Burns, a national political correspondent for The New York Tim...

The Daily
11 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Cancel Culture, Part 2: A Case Study

32:11

Yesterday on “The Daily,” the New York Times reporter Jonah Bromwich explained how the idea of cancel culture has emerged as a political and cultural force in 2020. In the second of two parts, he returns with a case study. Guest: Jonah Engel Bromwich, who writes for the Sty...

The Daily
10 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Cancel Culture, Part 1: Where It Came From

34:44

In the first of two parts, the New York Times reporter Jonah Bromwich explains the origins of cancel culture and why it’s a 2020 election story worth paying attention to. Guest: Jonah Engel Bromwich, who writes for the Styles section of The New York Times For more informati...

The Daily
09 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'A Speck in the Sea'

48:14

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. This is a story about isolation — and our struggle to close the space between us.

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The Daily
07 Aug 2020 • The New York Times

Jack Dorsey on Twitter's Mistakes

39:58

It’s been four years since the 2016 election laid bare the powerful role that social media companies have come to play in shaping political discourse and beliefs in America. Since then, there have been growing calls to address the spread of polarization and misinformation pr...